Died. William Philip Simms, 75, longtime (1920-50) sartorially elegant foreign editor for Scripps-Howard newspapers, who began patrolling Europe for the United Press in 1909, frequently while wearing a Homburg, carrying gloves and a stick, campaigned through both world wars and the years between them (too old at 62 to get credentials to cover the Normandy invasion, he bummed his way across the Channel, covered it anyway); in his sleep; in Washington, D.C. Time magazine, January 28, 1957.

The many Newnan friends of Mr. Phil Simms will be pleased and interested to learn that he was happily married in Cincinnatti a few days ago, his bride being Miss Marie LaGrande of that city. They have gone to Paris, France on a wedding trip and will spend a year traveling in Europe. Mr. Simms is a brother of R. E. Simms of this city and attended school a few years ago. He afterwards took a course in the State School of Technology and also took the law course at the University of Georgia. After leaving college he engaged in newspaper work in Atlanta, being on the staff of The Journal for two or three years. He then went to Cincinnatti and secured a position with the Cincinnatti Post as dramatic editor and it is understood that during his stay in Europe he will continue his connection with this paper as foreign correspondent. He is a bright young man and his career since leaving Newnan has been followed with interest by the friends of his boyhood days.